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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

On Celebrating the Everyday...

I would like to say that I'm one of those
super-adaptable individuals who rolls with the punches with feline agility, and
thrives on the excitement of spontaneity and thrill seeking.....but that would
be more of my mother, or pretty much anyone else on the world than myself.
Adapt I can, and I don't eschew change like the plague, but I've always been a
sucker for the comforts of a routine and ample preparedness.

However, I can't say that in my daily routine I haven't found a lulling
monotony from time to time, ebbing and flowing over shores of security and
stability, and that which I unconsciously seek out. It can get boring,
admittedly, but quirky resourcefulness has lead me to find some small ways to
liven things up and keep the everyday not so ordinary all the time.

One of the best, probably strangest, habits I've developed is checking
the national day calendar, a collection of day-by-day little known holidays
that are worth celebrating if not only for their obscurity. For example, today,
November 01,2016, is National Calzone Day (spinach, garlic, and cheese,
please!).

The bigger lesson, though, is that everyday there should be a
celebration of some kind, something that you look to for smile and a kick to
your step, because we all know that outside our front door there is too much
casting a looming, dark shadow on life and the few, small precious pieces
it offers to us in the long run.

I look forward to my mini- celebrations each day. It's something
different, new, and not ordinary. It's the kind of surprise I can handle every
single morning without having an existential breakdown, or at the very least,
feeling like a chicken without its proverbial head.

So the ultimate question that I pose to you, is, in this moment, right
now, on this day, what are you celebrating? From the invention of the
order-ahead phone app for Starbucks to the introduction of new life into the
world, no occasion is too meek or meager so long as it provides joy. These
celebrations speak to the very nature and backbone of our lives and ourselves,
and if more people openly celebrated and celebrated together, a new thread of
society weaving us together over some of the better things in life could be
drawn, and our routines -or spontaneous adventures, even- could become all the
more enriching.